Hard to when the biggest assholes in the industry are Activision and E.A. But then again, Activision is not all that bad. Blizzard is still putting out great RTS's and some great content for their games.

I gave up on COD multiplayer when I realized that the way they randomized spawns meant there was never a "front" to the battle. So most tactics and strategy are out. The only thing that matters is being twitchy enough to kill the person first when you both come around the corner at the same time, or to be lucky enough to shoot them in the back.

Gunderson:Bah, its only CoD. Wake me up when they screw over real gamers.

I'm really glad that you could take time away from your 'real gaming' to grace us with your presence in this thread.

yves0010:Hard to when the biggest assholes in the industry are Activision and E.A. But then again, Activision is not all that bad. Blizzard is still putting out great RTS's and some great content for their games.

I dunno despite all the shiat activision pulls they still don't have the 'online code' bullshiat of EA and Ubisoft and COD is one of the few remaining games that allows split screen online play and guests. Online codes are the most insulting cash grab ever envisioned.

I gave up on COD multiplayer when I realized that the way they randomized spawns meant there was never a "front" to the battle. So most tactics and strategy are out. The only thing that matters is being twitchy enough to kill the person first when you both come around the corner at the same time, or to be lucky enough to shoot them in the back.

Back when I was playing CoD4. I was in a snipers nest. Only found 2 of those in all the maps. One pissed me off when the chopper just killed me randomly.

Egoy3k:Gunderson: Bah, its only CoD. Wake me up when they screw over real gamers.

I'm really glad that you could take time away from your 'real gaming' to grace us with your presence in this thread.

yves0010: Hard to when the biggest assholes in the industry are Activision and E.A. But then again, Activision is not all that bad. Blizzard is still putting out great RTS's and some great content for their games.

I dunno despite all the shiat activision pulls they still don't have the 'online code' bullshiat of EA and Ubisoft and COD is one of the few remaining games that allows split screen online play and guests. Online codes are the most insulting cash grab ever envisioned.

I gave up on COD multiplayer when I realized that the way they randomized spawns meant there was never a "front" to the battle. So most tactics and strategy are out. The only thing that matters is being twitchy enough to kill the person first when you both come around the corner at the same time, or to be lucky enough to shoot them in the back.

There are a few objective-based modes that still have that: Domination, and Hardpoint especially.

Plus, when people start getting to know the maps, there will usually be a few points on the map that teams will fight over.

I just want them to release a map-pack of all the Modern Warfare and Black-Ops maps that can be played with the most current release. I played the fark out of MW2, and it had some of the best map design I've seen from a CoD game.

I gave up on COD multiplayer when I realized that the way they randomized spawns meant there was never a "front" to the battle. So most tactics and strategy are out. The only thing that matters is being twitchy enough to kill the person first when you both come around the corner at the same time, or to be lucky enough to shoot them in the back.

Wow, I think you pinpointed why I got so sick and tired of the CoD multiplayer. I'm primarily a sniper, and from BLOPS onward, every single map was geared toward frantic close-quarters fighting. The random spawn points meant you could never spend more than a minute somewhere because odds are the other team would eventually spawn right behind you.

I gave up on COD multiplayer when I realized that the way they randomized spawns meant there was never a "front" to the battle. So most tactics and strategy are out. The only thing that matters is being twitchy enough to kill the person first when you both come around the corner at the same time, or to be lucky enough to shoot them in the back.

Nuketown is a fun map. It's not strategic, nor does it require great skill, but it's a fun little romp that should be included considering they sold the piss out of it prior to release.

As for CoD multiplayer, I almost exclusively play the domination mode because it requires some tactics to be used and hiding in a dark corner waiting for someone to walk by won't garner a win. But yeah, CoD is a game in Team Death Match that rewards cheap gimmicky gameplay, if not outright encourages it.

yves0010:manimal2878: Why was that map supposed to be a selling point?

I gave up on COD multiplayer when I realized that the way they randomized spawns meant there was never a "front" to the battle. So most tactics and strategy are out. The only thing that matters is being twitchy enough to kill the person first when you both come around the corner at the same time, or to be lucky enough to shoot them in the back.

Back when I was playing CoD4. I was in a snipers nest. Only found 2 of those in all the maps. One pissed me off when the chopper just killed me randomly.

The best level was that ship level with two distinct sides (and spawn points). Get high up on one side and you've got a perfect sniping viewpoint. Then when you start pissing the other team off and forcing them to switch to sniper, you just wait for them to pop their heads out on the other side of the map and *BAM!* headshot. First time I ever had zero deaths was on that map (26-0).

Egoy3k:I dunno despite all the shiat activision pulls they still don't have the 'online code' bullshiat of EA and Ubisoft and COD is one of the few remaining games that allows split screen online play and guests. Online codes are the most insulting cash grab ever envisioned.

It's even more insulting when you are on a console and are ALREADY paying for Xbox Live.

manimal2878:I gave up on COD multiplayer when I realized that the way they randomized spawns meant there was never a "front" to the battle. So most tactics and strategy are out. The only thing that matters is being twitchy enough to kill the person first when you both come around the corner at the same time, or to be lucky enough to shoot them in the back.

There is a front. You just have to pay attention that one of your teammates isn't stupid enough to run through the back corner of whatever quadrant your enemy controls.

MayoSlather:As for CoD multiplayer, I almost exclusively play the domination mode because it requires some tactics to be used and hiding in a dark corner waiting for someone to walk by won't garner a win. But yeah, CoD is a game in Team Death Match that rewards cheap gimmicky gameplay, if not outright encourages it.

I exclusively play Dom for that reason. I just wish that they had bigger dom maps. They were so compact in MW3 it just felt like randomness than strategy. Hope the new one has bigger maps.

The word going around is that they pulled the playlist due to the massive amour of XP people were accumulating. I traditionally only played the hardcore gamemodes, but wandered into the nuketown playlist to see what was what. Dear lord, people would regularly go 50-40 or 23-2. If you aren't concerned about your k/d ratio, it was a simple way to rank up insanely fast. I can't blame them for pulling the nuketown 24/7 only playlist, but they should leave it as a map in the normal rotation. Whether or not that was the plan, I'm no sure.

croesius:The word going around is that they pulled the playlist due to the massive amour of XP people were accumulating. I traditionally only played the hardcore gamemodes, but wandered into the nuketown playlist to see what was what. Dear lord, people would regularly go 50-40 or 23-2. If you aren't concerned about your k/d ratio, it was a simple way to rank up insanely fast. I can't blame them for pulling the nuketown 24/7 only playlist, but they should leave it as a map in the normal rotation. Whether or not that was the plan, I'm no sure.

I was in Headquarters mode on nuketown and a guy racked up 112 kills in a game. Not sure what perks he had but he was moving around super fast and his sub machine gun sprayed bullets faster than anything I've seen before.

MayoSlather:I was in Headquarters mode on nuketown and a guy racked up 112 kills in a game. Not sure what perks he had but he was moving around super fast and his sub machine gun sprayed bullets faster than anything I've seen before.

I would post 100+ kills in dom on that level which had considerably less play time. No mods or even a team that I've played with before. Just put up that portable radar thing and sit in a house with an M40 and move around the top window. Dogs and Chopper gunner were easy to get to and due to the predictable spawns on that small level, the chopper would easily get 20-25 kills each time. Hit the dogs afterwards and run towards their base making sure they can't camp til the dogs end.

You can call it camping, but on that level there was no way I was stupid enough to walk into that fray.

thecpt:You can call it camping, but on that level there was no way I was stupid enough to walk into that fray.

I hate people who whine about camping anyways. We almost exclusively play in Hardcore Search and Destroy and we still hear idiots whining about camping when we are on defense. Like almost every game. Seriously once we had a guy lose his mind over voice coms.

"Oh my god! Man back out! These dicks only ever camp or rush!"

I'm not sure how he would have preferred that we play the game because when I asked him he said some stuff about my sexuality and my mother and then rage quit.

\play with a full team\\communicate\\\learn your teammates tactics on each map so you don't have to communicate every little thing\\\\win many matches

Excuse me if I stop at this corner and wait for your ignorant ass to fly around it, since you know... we have a UAV and you know it and none of your team bothers to shoot it down.

I get yelled at and called a camper every time I play and usually for this exact circumstance even though I'm the only one on my team actually taking positions in Dom. Usually when they start with the sexuality things I can pull some brutal lines on them as they have already proven that they are not the smartest.

Lots of people who preordered received incorrect download codes with their games and were unable to play the map.

I strolled into Walmart 20 mins. after midnight purchased a standard copy, was given a free shirt, poster, and my copy just also happened to have the dl code that so many people specifically payed extra for.

thecpt:manimal2878: I gave up on COD multiplayer when I realized that the way they randomized spawns meant there was never a "front" to the battle. So most tactics and strategy are out. The only thing that matters is being twitchy enough to kill the person first when you both come around the corner at the same time, or to be lucky enough to shoot them in the back.

There is a front. You just have to pay attention that one of your teammates isn't stupid enough to run through the back corner of whatever quadrant your enemy controls.

manimal2878:thecpt: manimal2878: I gave up on COD multiplayer when I realized that the way they randomized spawns meant there was never a "front" to the battle. So most tactics and strategy are out. The only thing that matters is being twitchy enough to kill the person first when you both come around the corner at the same time, or to be lucky enough to shoot them in the back.

There is a front. You just have to pay attention that one of your teammates isn't stupid enough to run through the back corner of whatever quadrant your enemy controls.

With COD your teammates are always that stupid.

Actually if there was a front that would be called flanking and really isn't stupid at all.

Jayzbo:strolled into Walmart 20 mins. after midnight purchased a standard copy, was given a free shirt, poster, and my copy just also happened to have the dl code that so many people specifically payed extra for.

Let's see. Company makes $500 million in sales in a 24 hour period. Heavily advertises "NUKETOWN 24/7. WE NEVER CLOSE!", then they remove the 24/7 version from the game. It's available again in a small maps moshpit.

How do these guys not get a class action lawsuit filed against them? Lot's of money in the bank and clear false advertising. Ambulance chasers have chased smaller fish for a much smaller payout.

The xp ranking over the weekend was crazy. I went from level 28 to prestige 1/level 20 in one night. Lucky for me they reset all my levels to 38 so I can do it all over again.

croesius:The word going around is that they pulled the playlist due to the massive amour of XP people were accumulating. I traditionally only played the hardcore gamemodes, but wandered into the nuketown playlist to see what was what. Dear lord, people would regularly go 50-40 or 23-2. If you aren't concerned about your k/d ratio, it was a simple way to rank up insanely fast. I can't blame them for pulling the nuketown 24/7 only playlist, but they should leave it as a map in the normal rotation. Whether or not that was the plan, I'm no sure.

Whats the big deal if people are gaining too much xp?

Consumers bought the game let them play how they want...its their time and money.

The DBS:Nuketown was the entire map pack so I'm not sure what you're getting at. it's still available in private match, but that's not what they advertised.

Map pack wasn't the correct words to use there, but unless I am reading the article wrong Nuketown is still available in multiplayer as a random map choice. They just removed the 24/7 Nuketown only mosh-pit game mode.

/Honestly didn't see any Nuketown advertising// If they did advertise "NUKETOWN 24/7. WE NEVER CLOSE!" then this is complete bullsheet.

Excuse me if I stop at this corner and wait for your ignorant ass to fly around it, since you know... we have a UAV and you know it and none of your team bothers to shoot it down.

I get yelled at and called a camper every time I play and usually for this exact circumstance even though I'm the only one on my team actually taking positions in Dom. Usually when they start with the sexuality things I can pull some brutal lines on them as they have already proven that they are not the smartest.

I gave MWO a try last week. "Oh hey, this thing is pretty fast, wheee" I go over a ridge, the world lights up, and I take heavy fire from pretty much every direction, and promptly explode. Meanwhile, the rest of my team has small groups of scouts moving in packs and tagging targets for long range artillery support. That's when I realized that a game based on 40 ton biped tanks is more "realistic" than CoD or BF.

ProfessorOhki:I gave MWO a try last week. "Oh hey, this thing is pretty fast, wheee" I go over a ridge, the world lights up, and I take heavy fire from pretty much every direction, and promptly explode. Meanwhile, the rest of my team has small groups of scouts moving in packs and tagging targets for long range artillery support. That's when I realized that a game based on 40 ton biped tanks is more "realistic" than CoD or BF.

It'll be assumed that you are scouting for artillery or have a 'misfit' that can punch harder that it appears... if you want to hunt I suggest "Follow that Atlas" as a good place to start, sure it's slow but it's a bigger threat than you so people won't notice you zip out behind it and start legging them until it's too late.

MWO's a neat game, functional but a bit primitive; if they can pull it together the loyal Battletech fanbase will do the rest.

Giltric:croesius: The word going around is that they pulled the playlist due to the massive amour of XP people were accumulating. I traditionally only played the hardcore gamemodes, but wandered into the nuketown playlist to see what was what. Dear lord, people would regularly go 50-40 or 23-2. If you aren't concerned about your k/d ratio, it was a simple way to rank up insanely fast. I can't blame them for pulling the nuketown 24/7 only playlist, but they should leave it as a map in the normal rotation. Whether or not that was the plan, I'm no sure.

Whats the big deal if people are gaining too much xp?

Consumers bought the game let them play how they want...its their time and money.

Oh, I personally have no qualms if people rank up with the speed of light. To elaborate on my previous post, in addition to people ranking with quickness, I have heard that the majority of players playing the game were on Nuketown, something like 150,000 out of 400,000 total spread out among the different modes. Again, I don't mind. They are playing the mode they want to play. I have a sneaking suspicion that some of the folk at Treyarch didn't like seeing all the maps they spent so long making get neglected, and this was also a bit of a snare to force people to play the "new" maps instead of the freshly-skinned Nuketown.

Vaneshi:ProfessorOhki: I gave MWO a try last week. "Oh hey, this thing is pretty fast, wheee" I go over a ridge, the world lights up, and I take heavy fire from pretty much every direction, and promptly explode. Meanwhile, the rest of my team has small groups of scouts moving in packs and tagging targets for long range artillery support. That's when I realized that a game based on 40 ton biped tanks is more "realistic" than CoD or BF.

It'll be assumed that you are scouting for artillery or have a 'misfit' that can punch harder that it appears... if you want to hunt I suggest "Follow that Atlas" as a good place to start, sure it's slow but it's a bigger threat than you so people won't notice you zip out behind it and start legging them until it's too late.

MWO's a neat game, functional but a bit primitive; if they can pull it together the loyal Battletech fanbase will do the rest.

My new hobby is sneaking up on catapults and blowing their shoulders off. I digress though, don't want to threadjack a BLOOPS thread too much.

Jayzbo:Lots of people who preordered received incorrect download codes with their games and were unable to play the map.

I strolled into Walmart 20 mins. after midnight purchased a standard copy, was given a free shirt, poster, and my copy just also happened to have the dl code that so many people specifically payed extra for.

Why does anyone preorder anything?

you didn't preorder Borderlands 2 did you? because THAT'S how you do preorders!

/and DLC//SHiFT codes are pretty badass too///was also the best AAA title launch i've experienced in a loooong time, so yeah, fark EA. buy better games

DeusMeh:Jayzbo: Lots of people who preordered received incorrect download codes with their games and were unable to play the map.

I strolled into Walmart 20 mins. after midnight purchased a standard copy, was given a free shirt, poster, and my copy just also happened to have the dl code that so many people specifically payed extra for.

Why does anyone preorder anything?

you didn't preorder Borderlands 2 did you? because THAT'S how you do preorders!

/and DLC//SHiFT codes are pretty badass too///was also the best AAA title launch i've experienced in a loooong time, so yeah, fark EA. buy better games

No, I've never played borderlands, though I've heard good things. I don't preorder anything though.